best way to start my dog

[Ray Mears 272]

i have a whippet x grey but no quiet sure how to start introducing it to rabbits is it to take it out on the lamp with another experienced dog or take it ferriting i am dont quite sure any help would be great

[Guest tjp]

id like to know this too fanx

[FERRETBOY 680]

i would start her off lamping and hopefully you may get a few squatters.make sure the dog sees the rabbit before you slip her.she should click on after a couple of outings.

 

good hunting

 

rew

[marko 30]

how old is the dog, is it broke to ferrets,has it seen what a lamp beam looks like of a night time first off if you start it on the lamp put out bits of titbits in diffrent areas in garden/yard put the beam on them so she starts to look whats in the beam then she will start to look whats in the beam and get curious this is a good way to train your dog to take out squatters good luck.

[Ray Mears 272]

she is 9 months

[marko 30]

she is a good age to start training on the lamp but i would say a bit young for running on lamp some say about 12-14 mths i go for latter when they are stronger.

[Rabbithunter 456]

let the dog watch other dogs working the lamp, this is what i did with my first dog, and he turned out great except for retrieving (which wasnt too bad anyway)

 

that was, until he decided to rip up his ligaments.

 

i plan to take skye out to watch other dogs, when she's about 7 months (shes 6 month old end of september)

[colliejohn 840]

let the dog watch other dogs working the lamp, this is what i did with my first dog, and he turned out great except for retrieving (which wasnt too bad anyway)

 

that was, until he decided to rip up his ligaments.

 

i plan to take skye out to watch other dogs, when she's about 7 months (shes 6 month old end of september)

AT NINE MONTHS IN MY OWN OPINION A DOG AS NOT MATURED BOTH PHYSICALLY AND MENTALLY, A DOG AT THIS AGE SHOULD BE BROKEN TO FERRETS AND LIVESTOCK, SHOULD BE ABLE TO JUMP AND ALL BEING WELL RETRIEVEING.TO MANY PEOPLE THROUGH IMPATIENCE AND OVER ENTHUSIASM, START THEIR DOGS OFF TO EARLY AND HAVE THEIR HIGH EXPECTATIONS SHATTERED,AND THEN GET RID OF THEIR DOGS.SADLY THIS IS A COMMON OCCURENCE,AND WITH A LITTLE MORE PATIENCE AND SELF CONTROL ON BEHALF OF THE OWNER ,THE PUP SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO MATURE AND THEN ENTERED IN SOME CASES IT COULD 14 -18 MONTHS OLD BUT WHAT IS THE RUSH WHEN YOU HAVE GOT YEARS AHEAD OF YOU. REGARDS COLLIE JOHN.

[LDR 29]

If it has a favourite toy, tie it on a piece of string and get it chasing it round while you've got the lamp on it, in the dark obviously, once it seems to be looking at the beam and finding its 'reward', chuck the toy out and put the lamp on it and send the dog on its way, whatever you do mate you're gonna miss a load, untill its ran a few....good luck mate, and like people have said before, wait untill its a bit older......

[steve109 43]

AT NINE MONTHS IN MY OWN OPINION A DOG AS NOT MATURED BOTH PHYSICALLY AND MENTALLY, A DOG AT THIS AGE SHOULD BE BROKEN TO FERRETS AND LIVESTOCK, SHOULD BE ABLE TO JUMP AND ALL BEING WELL RETRIEVEING.TO MANY PEOPLE THROUGH IMPATIENCE AND OVER ENTHUSIASM, START THEIR DOGS OFF TO EARLY AND HAVE THEIR HIGH EXPECTATIONS SHATTERED,AND THEN GET RID OF THEIR DOGS.SADLY THIS IS A COMMON OCCURENCE,AND WITH A LITTLE MORE PATIENCE AND SELF CONTROL ON BEHALF OF THE OWNER ,THE PUP SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO MATURE AND THEN ENTERED IN SOME CASES IT COULD 14 -18 MONTHS OLD BUT WHAT IS THE RUSH WHEN YOU HAVE GOT YEARS AHEAD OF YOU. REGARDS COLLIE JOHN.

its not a matter of starting your dog to early if its bred well it will kill when ready. my 7month lakey and 10month bed/grey/wip done fox first time out and by the time he was3 hed done countlless fox ,roe.fallow i would have backed that dog against any other in the country at any quarry execpt fen hare

im talking 1980s here. so if she wants to kill now let her put her in on a kill with another dog.....

got to agree

[collie/grey 238]

let the dog watch other dogs working the lamp, this is what i did with my first dog, and he turned out great except for retrieving (which wasnt too bad anyway)

 

that was, until he decided to rip up his ligaments.

 

i plan to take skye out to watch other dogs, when she's about 7 months (shes 6 month old end of september)

AT NINE MONTHS IN MY OWN OPINION A DOG AS NOT MATURED BOTH PHYSICALLY AND MENTALLY, A DOG AT THIS AGE SHOULD BE BROKEN TO FERRETS AND LIVESTOCK, SHOULD BE ABLE TO JUMP AND ALL BEING WELL RETRIEVEING.TO MANY PEOPLE THROUGH IMPATIENCE AND OVER ENTHUSIASM, START THEIR DOGS OFF TO EARLY AND HAVE THEIR HIGH EXPECTATIONS SHATTERED,AND THEN GET RID OF THEIR DOGS.SADLY THIS IS A COMMON OCCURENCE,AND WITH A LITTLE MORE PATIENCE AND SELF CONTROL ON BEHALF OF THE OWNER ,THE PUP SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO MATURE AND THEN ENTERED IN SOME CASES IT COULD 14 -18 MONTHS OLD BUT WHAT IS THE RUSH WHEN YOU HAVE GOT YEARS AHEAD OF YOU. REGARDS COLLIE JOHN.

 

I couldn't have said anything better, totally agree with everything you have said.

[dickyboy 1]

i chuck fur covered dummys all round a football field then lamp them and get him retreiving ........ then went some where where i didn't care that the rabbits got lamp shy(they all hug the hedgerow) and just held the light on them walking towards them without slipping him, my boy soon picked up that live rabbits as well as dummies were in the light beam, a bit more retreiving of the dummies then off for a nice easy night hedouldn't gab them but always goes down the beam, if i stop the light for too long he just wants to run down it then when i took him out with a couple of other peoples dogs who could do it it clicked and theres no stopping him he had 5 out of 6 on his 7th night and never had a blank night since

Edited September 8, 2006 by dickyboy